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Objective: To describe midwifery students' insights on promoting health to Aboriginal women in remote Australia following a supervised clinical placement. Design: Semistructured, in-depth interviews were conducted with all midwifery students who undertook the placement between 2010 and 2013. Setting: Aboriginal communities on the Ngaanyatjarra Lands, Western Australia. Participants: Undergraduate and postgraduate midwifery students from a Western Australian university. Interventions: Remote cultural immersion clinical placement. Main outcome measures: Student learning related to culturally respectful health care delivery and promotion of health.

Background: Culturally secure health care settings enhance accessibility by Aboriginal Australians and improve their satisfaction with service delivery. A culturally secure health service recognises and responds to the ...

Background: Cultural immersion programs are increasingly offered to medical and health science students in an effort to provide experiential learning opportunities that focus on ‘the self’ as well as ‘the other’. Immersion ...

Background: Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs) are widely used in health professional education and should be based on sound pedagogical foundations. Objectives: The aim of this study is to evaluate the ...